"I am run down.
I think the bush monotony tells on women.

I don't want anyone to fall sick, but I do wish I could get a little nursing to do again--just for a change.

I would nurse Red Mick himself." Is there anything in telepathy?
Do coming events sometimes send warnings on ahead?
Certain it is that, even as she spoke, a rider on a sweating horse was seen coming at full speed up the flat; he put his horse over the sliprails that led into the house paddock without any hesitation, and came on at a swinging gallop.
"What is this ?" said Ellen Harriott, "more trouble?
It is only trouble that comes so fast.

Why, it is one of Red Mick's nephews!" By this time the rider was up to them; without dismounting he called out Miss! Please, Miss! There's been an accident.

My uncle got run agin a tree and he's all smashed in the head.